Posted on: 29 March, 2021 - 11:29
What are achievements?
You can use Blackboard achievements to create opportunities for students to earn recognition for their work. You designate criteria for issuing achievements to students in the form of both badges and certificates.
Students can see which badges and certificates they have earned and what is required to receive additional recognition. They can gain insight into learning progression toward defined competencies.
Students can publish badges to the Badge Backpack and transport evidence of their learning outside of Blackboard Learn.
Instructors can create three types of achievements:
- Course Completion (requires a certificate; a badge is optional)
- Milestone (badge only)
- Custom (can be either a certificate or a badge)
How to create an achievement?
Your achievements appear in content areas and in the achievements tool.
Step 1: Open the achievements tool. You can find it in the Course Tools section of the Control Panel or in the Tools menu in a content area.
Step 2: On the Create Achievement page, type a name.
Step 3: Select a location in your course. Students are notified.
Step 4: Select the type of achievement:
- Course Completion: The certificate reward is required. An additional badge is optional.
- Milestone: The reward is a badge.
- Custom: The reward is a badge, certificate, or both.
Step 5: Decide if students can see the achievement before they earn it:
- Select Yes for rewards meant to motivate all students.
- Select No for special rewards for specific students that all course members don't need to see.
Step 6: Optionally, type a description that clearly defines what you expect students to complete to earn the reward.
Step 7: Select Define Triggers to continue.
Define achievement reward criteria
For an achievement, you can define one or more rules that trigger the release of the reward. You must define at least one rule.
The achievements tool uses Blackboard Learn's adaptive release technology, including these items:
- Attempts on test, surveys, and assignments
- Grades on tests, surveys, and assignments
- Graded discussion posts, graded wikis, graded blogs, and graded journals
- Manually created Grade Center columns
- Marked reviewed statuses on course content
- Group membership or specific users
- Start date to earn an achievement
Selecting the Reward
On the final page, choose the reward, which is based on the achievement type:
- Course Completion: The certificate reward is required. An additional badge is optional.
- Milestone: The reward is a badge.
- Custom: The reward is a badge, certificate, or both.
You can preview how a certificate will appear to students. The certificate includes your institution, the student's name, the course name, and the date the criteria were met.
For badges, you can select an image from the catalog or upload a custom image. An uploaded badge image is available for reuse within your course. If you uploaded an image and need to remove it, you can delete the file from your course's storage repository in the achievements directory. Uploaded images are automatically resized.
Select Submit to issue the achievement.